Louis Paul Boon

Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism. He was also a painter. He is most known for the novels My Little War (1947), the diptych Chapel Road (1953) / Summer in Termuren (1956), Menuet (1955) and Pieter Daens (1971).

He was born in 1912 as Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium, the oldest son in a working-class family. Although he was still very young during the First World War, memories of a German soldier shooting a prisoner will end up in later autobiographical work. Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a car painter[1]. He was expelled from school for possession of forbidden books. During evenings and weekends he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon had to abandon his studies due to lack of funds. In 1936 he married Jeanneke De Wolf. Three years later, their son Jo was born.

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Paul Reed (writer)

Paul Reed (May 28, 1956 – January 28, 2002) was an American writer, best known as one of the first major writers of HIV/AIDS-themed literature in the United States.[1] Born Paul Hustoft in San Diego, California, his father died when he was a child and he later adopted his stepfather’s surname Reed after his mother […]

Tilly Greene

Tilly Greene is an American romantic fiction author. Born in Southern California, Greene eventually moved to North Yorkshire in England to further her education, and now resides on the New Jersey. Read: Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville

Michael Hemmingson

Michael Hemmingson (July 12, 1966 – January 9, 2014) was a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, and screenwriter. He died in Tijuana, Mexico on 9 January 2014. The reported cause was cardiac arrest.[1] As an independent scholar, Hemmingson wrote the meditation, Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth Century […]

Charlotte Roche

Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche (born 18 March 1978 in High Wycombe, England) is a German television presenter, producer, actress and author.[1] She is best known for her novel Wetlands. Roche, the daughter of an engineer and a politically and artistically active mother was born in High Wycombe UK near London and raised in Germany.[2] In […]

Ion Vinea

Ion Vinea (born Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, sometimes Iovanache; April 17, 1895 – July 6, 1964) was a Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure. He became active on the modernist scene during his teens, his poetic work always indebted to the Symbolist movement, and first founded, with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, the […]

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